(06/01 14:02:39) Calum Traveler: shorah!
(06/01 14:02:41) Tweek: Heyo
(06/01 14:02:46) Jes'ka: I am slightly confused by the amount of puking pictures. XD
(06/01 14:02:56) Calum Traveler: yeah, some folks are a bit punny i think
(06/01 14:03:06) Calum Traveler: you give them one toilet and suddenly it's potty humor all over
(06/01 14:03:11) Jes'ka: Don't think I've been in here before
(06/01 14:03:18) Calum Traveler: this is the Watcher's Pub,
(06/01 14:03:25) Calum Traveler: also known as the Great Tree Pub
(06/01 14:03:40) Calum Traveler: it doesn't really offer much in the way of drinks these days
(06/01 14:03:57) Calum Traveler: over here you'll find two books
(06/01 14:04:05) Calum Traveler: Er'cana is on the left, and Ahnonay is on the right
(06/01 14:04:21) Calum Traveler: they have some significance to this place, but that's a bit of a spiel
(06/01 14:04:39) Jes'ka: Whoah.
(06/01 14:04:40) Calum Traveler: and here is the "Great Tree"
(06/01 14:04:48) Jes'ka: Petrified tree?
(06/01 14:04:53) Calum Traveler: not sure,
(06/01 14:04:59) Calum Traveler: could just be stone carved to look like wood
(06/01 14:05:16) Calum Traveler: accessing it is sealed off for the moment, though
(06/01 14:05:19) Jes'ka: Feels sketchworthy
(06/01 14:05:20) Calum Traveler: has been for a long while.
(06/01 14:05:30) Calum Traveler: nobody's quite in agreement about opening access to it.
(06/01 14:05:52) Calum Traveler: it's a long story, I shan't bore you with it.
(06/01 14:05:53) Jes'ka: It is a one-of-a-kind thing
(06/01 14:05:58) Calum Traveler: indeed it is.
(06/01 14:06:04) Calum Traveler: has a lot of historical significance,
(06/01 14:06:19) Calum Traveler: this Pub changed owners a *lot* during the D'ni's time.
(06/01 14:06:29) Calum Traveler: lots of cults rose and fell
(06/01 14:06:38) Jes'ka: I like the lanterns
(06/01 14:06:49) Calum Traveler: this place was last owned by a sorta con-artist type fellow named Kadish, you might've heard of him.
(06/01 14:06:59) Jes'ka: Oh yeah, that was the age tour I went on
(06/01 14:07:16) Calum Traveler: he took advantage of the Tree, and the current cult built around this place to build up some power,
(06/01 14:07:27) Jes'ka: Need to go ;through that myself for the next step in the Journey
(06/01 14:07:40) Calum Traveler: the cult was about this guy named The Watcher, who was said to have been born mid link
(06/01 14:07:47) Calum Traveler: and thus, Yahvo chose him to see the future.
(06/01 14:08:03) Calum Traveler: he wrote down five volumes of works, one line for each book a day.
(06/01 14:08:18) Calum Traveler points
(06/01 14:08:21) Calum Traveler: these are them
(06/01 14:08:24) Calum Traveler: Watcher's Words,
(06/01 14:08:26) Calum Traveler: translated, of course.
(06/01 14:08:34) Jes'ka: Oh phew.
(06/01 14:08:42) Jes'ka: I was gonna say, I haven't even gone to one language lesson yet. XD
(06/01 14:08:49) Calum Traveler: They're rather interesting tomes, all things considered
(06/01 14:09:04) Calum Traveler: there's a *lot* in them that skewed close to actual history, in retrospect,
(06/01 14:09:25) Jes'ka: I mean, we have magic teleporting books, don't see a reason to write off prophecy yet.
(06/01 14:09:26) Calum Traveler: im not sure why folks believed the Prophecy stuff at the time save that D'ni has had a history of Prophets and Prophetesses advising the Kings.
(06/01 14:09:49) Calum Traveler: in my personal opinion, anybody can write a prophecy that comes true, if they're vague enough.
(06/01 14:10:09) Calum Traveler: anyways, the crux of the matter is that The Watcher foresaw someone called "The Grower"
(06/01 14:10:11) Tweek: We need a D'ni prophet where the book is just quotes from fortune cookies.
(06/01 14:10:17) Calum Traveler starts to laugh
(06/01 14:10:20) Jes'ka: And this ties into the whole Yeesha thing
(06/01 14:10:37) Calum Traveler: yeah, see, "The Grower" has a few special things about them
(06/01 14:10:47) Calum Traveler: someone who'd "Bring light to the Cavern" and "Link through time"
(06/01 14:11:02) Calum Traveler: naturally, Kadish thought himself that person, so he devised two ages,
(06/01 14:11:09) Jes'ka: Gah. I dunno if I"m ever gonna get used to the Zero beam. Especially when I'm just about to sleep
(06/01 14:11:12) Calum Traveler: and set himself up as the owner of this place.
(06/01 14:11:18) Calum Traveler: yeah, it takes some getting used to.
(06/01 14:11:42) Calum Traveler: he built this puzzle room behind the tree to lock off access to it,
(06/01 14:11:48) Calum Traveler: said, 'only the grower can solve it' basically
(06/01 14:11:55) Calum Traveler: but he was the one who built it so of course he knew the solution
(06/01 14:12:19) Calum Traveler: Er'cana was his pass at "Bring light to the cavern" - it's a harvesting age built around feeding the lake algae,
(06/01 14:12:32) Calum Traveler: And Ahnonay was his "Link through time"
(06/01 14:12:39) Jes'ka: Oh, that's what people have been talking about the pellets for
(06/01 14:12:42) Calum Traveler: i wont spoil anything more than that.
(06/01 14:12:44) Calum Traveler: yep,
(06/01 14:12:52) Calum Traveler: the button doesn't quite work
(06/01 14:12:53) Jes'ka: Curses. Fake button.
(06/01 14:13:03) Calum Traveler: it's disabled, rather.
(06/01 14:13:06) Jes'ka: Sorry, the thing was taunting me. XP
(06/01 14:13:22) Calum Traveler: if we ever get a consensus on opening this place up, that button'll light up
(06/01 14:13:41) Calum Traveler: finally, let's get to the reason we came here
(06/01 14:14:00) Calum Traveler: this alcove is 'new' technically
(06/01 14:14:09) Jes'ka: Yay, books
(06/01 14:14:13) Calum Traveler: well, it's been here but we restored it back in 2020
(06/01 14:14:15) Calum Traveler: opened up up
(06/01 14:14:31) Calum Traveler: pick one of the books from the box,
(06/01 14:14:36) Jes'ka: Just did.
(06/01 14:14:37) Calum Traveler: then we'll head through this center book
[Calum and Jes'ka link to Chiso Preniv]
(06/01 14:14:56) Jes'ka: Oh wow
(06/01 14:15:04) Calum Traveler: welcome to Chiso Preniv.
(06/01 14:15:19) Calum Traveler: that's not it's official D'ni name, but sort of its nickname
(06/01 14:15:21) Jes'ka: This feels a LOT like Atrus' style
(06/01 14:15:23) Calum Traveler: "Another Archive"
(06/01 14:15:36) Calum Traveler: yes, that style does tend to crop up a lot in some surprising places.
(06/01 14:15:38) Jes'ka: The shelves, the arch displays....
(06/01 14:15:47) Calum Traveler: I think we know where Atrus got it from, honestly. lol
(06/01 14:16:06) Calum Traveler: over here youll find some history books
(06/01 14:16:09) Calum Traveler: i helped make some of them
(06/01 14:16:25) Calum Traveler: they're not perfect retellings of events, but they'll give you the general gist of everything that happened before.
(06/01 14:16:36) Calum Traveler: i'm hoping to get some free time this summer to work on some new additions to this shelf
(06/01 14:16:37) Jes'ka: I get the feeling I"m gonna spend a lot of time here tonight
(06/01 14:16:41) Calum Traveler: heh
(06/01 14:17:03) Calum Traveler: over here you'll find a book by Jules Lavisham, one of our historians.
(06/01 14:17:15) Calum Traveler: it's something of a personal annecdote of his regarding a woman known as Echo McKenzie,
(06/01 14:17:19) Calum Traveler: another prophet type person.
(06/01 14:17:25) Calum Traveler: except she sees 'back'
(06/01 14:17:34) Jes'ka: I think I saw about her on Beneath
(06/01 14:17:38) Calum Traveler nods
(06/01 14:17:41) Jes'ka: And in the Watson Letters
(06/01 14:17:52) Calum Traveler: see, i can believe someone can see the past,
(06/01 14:17:58) Jes'ka: Postcognition, I think it's called
(06/01 14:18:06) Calum Traveler: especially with a place like d'ni where such a traumatic event happened and there's sure to be spirits lingering.
(06/01 14:18:32) Calum Traveler: the thing i just cant get behind is the future. there's so many tiny twists and turns over the course of any given day...
(06/01 14:18:35) Jes'ka: Yeah. I haven't /seen/ anything, But I"ve definitely picked up vibes. Like when I was exploring those old worker's quarters in the city proper.
(06/01 14:18:49) Calum Traveler: see, what I think the Watcher did is looked at a bunch of different potential futures
(06/01 14:18:52) Calum Traveler: branches along the tree
(06/01 14:19:02) Jes'ka: It's all so intact, aside from some expected collapses, but... the people are gone.
(06/01 14:19:14) Calum Traveler: but there's no way he could have known what exact future was going to befall D'ni to a T
(06/01 14:19:26) Jes'ka: Makes sense.
(06/01 14:19:28) Calum Traveler has a haunted look in his eyes for a long moment...
(06/01 14:19:36) Jes'ka: ...Need a hug?
(06/01 14:19:39) Calum Traveler: nah, im good
(06/01 14:19:48) Calum Traveler: anyways! we've got books galore here, and plans for more
(06/01 14:19:58) Jes'ka: I love books.
(06/01 14:20:00) Calum Traveler: over here is the first volume of Angelmysts' novel series
(06/01 14:20:31) Calum Traveler: i think we're getting more in,
(06/01 14:20:36) Calum Traveler: new covers, too,
(06/01 14:20:51) Jes'ka: That reminds me, need to use that woodburning pen to start numbering my journal covers
(06/01 14:21:07) Calum Traveler: frankly im hoping we can get a 'fiction' and 'nonfiction' divider set up, we need some good fiction books in here to contrast with the nonfiction.
(06/01 14:21:20) Calum Traveler: but we haven't quite hit a point of needing that yet. ^^;
(06/01 14:21:35) Calum Traveler: so,
(06/01 14:21:40) Calum Traveler: this is the centerpiece of the main hub
(06/01 14:21:52) Calum Traveler: these are the currently on display Ages,
(06/01 14:22:11) Calum Traveler: we've cycled two of them off the ring already, and put them upstairs on their own podiums
(06/01 14:22:15) Calum Traveler: something of special cases, those
(06/01 14:22:24) Calum Traveler: as the future goes on, we'll be moving them over here
(06/01 14:22:39) Calum Traveler: we've got the lamps set up already and everything!
(06/01 14:22:54) Jes'ka: And I thought I had a lot to explore just with the few ages left on my first Journey....
(06/01 14:22:56) Calum Traveler: oldest out to the shelf, then newest into its slot on the ring.
(06/01 14:23:03) Calum Traveler: oh, you have so much to explore
(06/01 14:23:05) Calum Traveler: take your time,
(06/01 14:23:12) Jes'ka: Part of me wants to try to do things roughly in order so I don't just get totally sidetracked, but ADHD brain says GO NUTS
(06/01 14:23:17) Calum Traveler: you'll find your way around to so many places.
(06/01 14:23:21) Calum Traveler: do take your time with it,
(06/01 14:23:27) Calum Traveler: this is all a history best taken in slowly
(06/01 14:24:19) Calum Traveler: this is a book that Patrick Dulebohn, our restoration lead manager, left here,
(06/01 14:24:24) Calum Traveler: give it a read sometime.
(06/01 14:24:36) Calum Traveler: it'll give you some insight about the age we're in and events that transpired
(06/01 14:24:45) Calum Traveler: i will say that there is more to this place than meets the eye.
(06/01 14:24:45) Jes'ka: Will do!
(06/01 14:24:54) Calum Traveler: there's currently work going on to secure a route to the outside,
(06/01 14:25:05) Calum Traveler: but due to the history of this place, that's... very tricky.
(06/01 14:25:18) Calum Traveler: the ground is something of a slurry of quicksand.
(06/01 14:25:21) Jes'ka: Yeah. Kind of hard to nondestructively get out of a building with no doors
(06/01 14:25:27) Calum Traveler: oh, there's doors
(06/01 14:25:30) Calum Traveler: you just have to find them
(06/01 14:25:35) Calum Traveler chuckles mysteriously
(06/01 14:25:44) Calum Traveler: finally, let's head upstairs
(06/01 14:25:47) Jes'ka: ...I'm gonna have to prod every book and light fixture in this place aren't I
(06/01 14:25:52) Calum Traveler: no,
(06/01 14:26:01) Calum Traveler: ill say that much it's not a hidden book lever,
(06/01 14:26:12) Calum Traveler: it took us by surprise when we initially found it, though.
(06/01 14:26:26) Calum Traveler: this book leads to the Memorial Age
(06/01 14:26:45) Calum Traveler: Veelay Tsahvahn
(06/01 14:26:52) Calum Traveler: or just Veelay for short
(06/01 14:27:16) Calum Traveler: it's a very old D'ni Memorial age, possibly going back to the time of Garternay, but im not certain on that.
(06/01 14:27:42) Calum Traveler: we've sort of repurposed it for our own ends, and set up a series of books in it detailing Explorers who we've lost.
(06/01 14:27:43) Jes'ka bows her head
(06/01 14:28:09) Calum Traveler: it's worth looking around in, when you have a moment of alone time,
(06/01 14:28:16) Jes'ka nods
(06/01 14:28:26) Calum Traveler: across the bridge here...
(06/01 14:28:38) Calum Traveler: this is where we'll be heading through
[Linking to Guild Of Messengers Pub]
(06/01 14:29:06) Calum Traveler: welcome to the New Guild of Messengers Pub
(06/01 14:29:11) Calum Traveler: first things first
(06/01 14:29:17) Calum Traveler: ki in slot
(06/01 14:29:25) Calum Traveler: and now you have an easy link here!
(06/01 14:29:33) Jes'ka: Oh hey, actual place to hang out and eat and drink.
(06/01 14:29:36) Calum Traveler: indeed
(06/01 14:29:38) Calum Traveler: a proper pub
(06/01 14:29:47) Calum Traveler: this is the Chiso return link
(06/01 14:30:06) Calum Traveler: so there's four corner rooms and one upstairs meeting room
(06/01 14:30:12) Jes'ka: Gotta say, I really like it here
(06/01 14:30:17) Calum Traveler: most folk gather for events either in the main lobby or in one specific corner room
(06/01 14:30:48) Calum Traveler: this is what's basically the Music Corner.
(06/01 14:30:56) Calum Traveler: Karaoke events happen here every saturday,
(06/01 14:30:59) Jes'ka: Really nice music too
(06/01 14:31:08) Calum Traveler: Fil used to do his Live Presentations on Wednesdays here too
(06/01 14:31:13) Jes'ka: Shame I can't carry a tune to save my life. XP
(06/01 14:31:16) Calum Traveler: but he's moved to DRC 18's Tsogal for the Sun
(06/01 14:31:28) Calum Traveler: during Mysterium, this is also the Riven Room.
(06/01 14:31:45) Jes'ka: I'll definitely be here for Mysterium
(06/01 14:31:50) Calum Traveler:
(06/01 14:31:59) Calum Traveler: in here is the kitchen
(06/01 14:32:06) Calum Traveler: it's not much
(06/01 14:32:09) Calum Traveler: but it does the job
(06/01 14:32:32) Jes'ka: Kinda funny seeing modern tech and a D'ni sink right next to eachother
(06/01 14:32:39) Calum Traveler: indeed
(06/01 14:33:11) Calum Traveler: this is the outside lobby area
(06/01 14:33:26) Calum Traveler: and inside there through the doors is the conference room
(06/01 14:33:56) Calum Traveler: imagers are public postable,
(06/01 14:34:23) Calum Traveler: i think that's it as far as tours go.
(06/01 14:34:28) Jes'ka: Thank you so much!
(06/01 14:34:32) Calum Traveler: no problem
(06/01 14:34:38) Calum Traveler: i gotta go get some food now,
(06/01 14:34:38) Jes'ka: I'll definitely be coming back here after I take care of some stuff. Gotta mow the lawn
(06/01 14:34:45) Calum Traveler: ah, yes, surface chores
(06/01 14:34:47) Jes'ka waves hello
(06/01 14:34:48) Calum Traveler: happy mowing
(06/01 14:34:49) Calum Traveler waves goodbye
(06/01 14:34:50) Jes'ka: Thanks again so much!
(06/01 14:34:55) Calum Traveler: no problem!
(06/01 14:35:01) Calum Traveler: take care